Winners Assembly Church Mixed Use Rezoning at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

Context: Minutes for Item 11 state "Carried: 14 to 0" while noting Hampton and Herbert were out of the room shown voting in favor and Sims is listed both among the "for" names and as absent (15 names for a count of 14).

Recommended: The July 10, 2025 minutes record a 14-0 result but list fifteen names in the affirmative column, with Sims appearing both among the "for" voters and as absent, and two commissioners marked out of the room yet shown voting in favor. Request the certified minutes and the recorded roll call for that item and the October 9, 2025 item so the record shows what was actually carried before any Council action, since reconstructing this becomes harder after the file closes.

Context: Council items for January 14, March 25, and June 24, 2026 all list the applicant request as MU-3 with staff recommending consideration of FWMU-5 within Planned Development District No. 595 and the City Plan Commission recommendation as denial (Z245-200/Z-25-000073).

Recommended: The application asks for a straight MU-3 Mixed Use District while staff instead recommends a form-based FWMU-5 subdistrict inside Planned Development District No. 595 — pull both rule sets and model the site under each, because building envelope, ground-floor treatment under the existing shopfront overlay, and parking obligations differ depending on which one Council adopts. If you underwrite the corner at FWMU-5 intensity, note the site today remains FWMU-3 and the Plan Commission's recommendation is denial.

Context: Items were carried 14-0 on July 10, 2025 and 10-0 on October 9, 2025 with planner Teaseia Blue assigned, while the January 14, March 25, and June 24, 2026 Council notices each list "Recommendation of CPC: Denial" and record successive deferrals.

Recommended: Both Plan Commission actions on this church rezoning carried unanimously — 14-0 in July 2025 and 10-0 in October 2025 — yet every Council hearing notice reports the Commission recommendation as denial while staff recommends the form-based FWMU-5 option. Ask the planner assigned to the case what each unanimous motion actually did, and why Council has deferred the same item three consecutive times over more than five months.

Context: The application covers the north corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Colonial Avenue, zoned FWMU-3 with a shopfront overlay in Planned Development District No. 595, with Teaseia Blue listed as planner and the church of Apostle Raphael Adebayo as applicant.

Recommended: The property on the north corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Colonial Avenue carries a shopfront overlay today, and the pending request would replace the current form standards with either a conventional mixed-use district or a higher-intensity form subdistrict. Ask the assigned planner, in writing, what maximum building height and ground-floor storefront requirement would apply under each option so you know what can be built next door before the item returns.